HOT, HOT, HOOOTTT!!!

 Wow it's HOT here in Yuma! We've been in really hot weather where the highest was 118! The RV, with both air conditioners running, got up to 82 inside. Good thing we have the RV port to keep us out of the smoking hot SUN. Our power bill was $337.00 for the month, that's the highest we've ever seen. 

We had a hurricane come thru, but it was only 69 mph winds, no rain. Then a week later we had Monsoon rain. We got 2 inches of rain with wind that day. 

This poor guy's carport blew right over the house and landed on the other side in the front yard. It kinda looks like art work. He's not here in town so it's been like that for a couple of weeks. I heard that the old RV park we used to be in lost about 6 carports and piled up a ton of sand in the park.

We sat outside during that huge rain storm.

Here is the wash on 14th street. It was only a foot or so deep, but moving fast and it was gone in about hour.

But the whole reason we are here was to get Peggy's eyes fixed. She got it done on August 21, a week earlier than it was scheduled. Check the video for the progress from day 1. She is happy with the good job the doctor did.

 I have golfed a couple of times, but it's so hot I haven't played as much as I would like. We start at 8:00 am to try to beat the heat. The best thing is, we got 1st place on Saturday and the next week we got 2nd place even after we got rained on really hard.

I think Katie is happy to be back. She just goes outside and lays in the hot Yuma sun sometimes, but not for long.

We got rid of Spectrum internet service. It had a lot of problems in the hot weather and would just stop working. So this year we're going to use Starlink. We love Starlink. It worked well in every place we traveled too. I changed the service status to standard so that will save $30 a month. I didn't think you could do that, but it works fine and only costs $120 a month. 

I whipped up a little Brisket on the good old Green Egg. It was really good. We ate off that for a couple of days. It was 3.5 pounds, just the right size for us.

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Matt with his egg family at their cabin and they have a large back at home.

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We are back in Yuma!

 We have made our way back to Yuma and yes it's HOT! We came back to get Peggy's eyes done later in the mouth. It's nice to be back. We got a swamp cooler to keep it cool outside. Inside the air conditioners run most of the time.

 We had a little problem with our water softener while we were gone. It got a crack in the side and made it leak. So we had to get a new one. I put the old one in our trash bin, but when the truck tried to pick it up it couldn't make it all the way into the top of the truck. He tried 3 times but couldn't make it. So I called them and they will pick it up next week for $13 bucks. Had to tip the bin over to get it out. It's heavy!

Our swamp cooler. Fill it full of water and it cools you down. You have to sit pretty close to it. It's only going to get to 103 today!

We get up early in the morning to get outside and get stuff done before it gets too hot out. I got up at 4:30 am to make a 6:00 am tee time. We played 18 holes and I was pretty whipped out after that.

We stopped in Hurricane, UT on our way back. This was our lot and the satellite did not work at all. 

But Starlink did! Starlink worked great everywhere we went!  

We went to Zion N.P. for a little Brewery stop. The laws in Utah are pretty weird. In most places you have to buy food before they will serve you a beer.  So we got chips and salsa to get past that stupid law. At least they got rid of the 3.2 beer law. But that was only because the big beer brewers stopped making 3.2 beer.   

This is a beautiful drive on I 15 in the Virgin River Gorge. Peggy shot this video.  

Driving, I cannot see the sky, the walls are so high. Fun drive.

On our way we stopped at this automatic truck wash to get the motor home and car washed. It worked pretty well. The motor home was pretty dirty from all the rain we had on this trip.

We had a road runner hunting in our yard. I didn't see him get anything.

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The Mint Bar in Sheridan, WY one of our favorite bars in the world.

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Moved a bunch of times

We've moved a bunch of times. We left Peter D's in Sheridan, WY and went to Parkway Trailer and RV park  in Cody. Wyoming. The park was just OK but I don't think we would stay there again. The town was nice and it's close to Yellowstone N.P., so we made the drive into the park one day. The drive on the way was very scenic. The road followed the Shoshone river all the way.

The park entrance. We used Peggy's geezer pass to get in FREE!

Yellowstone lake and you can see the snow on the mountains on the other side of the lake. We've seen a lot of snow this year. We drove up high enough that we could touch it. But I hate SNOW!

A little waterfall right next to the road, but in this picture it just looks like wet rocks;-)

We stopped and had a little picnic at a roadside park on the Shoshone River on our way back from Yellowstone. Katie didn't get in the river.

Katie is so funny, she wouldn't go up the trail because of some weeds across it. She made me come back and move the weeds out of the way. 

Then we moved to Three Forks, Montana and stayed 2 days at Three Forks Market and RV Park, but it was expensive and it was not dog friendly. But right across the street, the Rodeo was in town. So that was some good entertainment. 

Katie likes the horses. It was a half mile walk all the way around the Rodeo grounds and lots of good smells for Katie.

Then we moved to Ennis, MT and stayed at Starry Nights RV park (a.k.a. Ennis RV Park). We had a really nice pull thru site. The town of Ennis is really nice. They have The Burnt Tree Brewery and across the street was Willie's Distillery. We had lunch at The Gravel Bar. A funny name for a bar but, they had good food. 

From Ennis we took a drive to Virginia City, an old time mining town that still has the original buildings. 

And yes, we stopped at The Bale of Hay Saloon to test the Missouri

River Cream Ale they had and it was good. Great, old bar.

The Blacksmith shop.

We started to look at the next park we were going to in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho and we figured out that we had a site with no sewer! Oh, my mistake! So we called and cancelled that site. We cannot go a week without a sewer! I made that reservation, I screwed up. So we called a park in Logan, Utah and got in. We have stayed at this park before. So that's where we are now.

Our site at Traveland RV park.

 

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The happy travelers in some establishment somewhere. 

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Infested Again

 We are in Sheridan, WY at Peter D's RV park. it's a nice little park . We were here way back in 2015. We like Sheridan. It's a nice, little western town. The only bad thing is we've been infested with millers (small moths). Every night at about 10:00 they start coming out. We have killed as many as 35 in the RV per day. I set up a bowl of soapy water under the microwave with the light on and catch 15 on average a night. We've had infestations before. Back in Michigan we had 10,000 lady bugs on the side of the RV and I think we got 5,000 of them inside the RV. It took us 6 months to get rid of them. Then in South Carolina we got infested with "Stink Bugs" (a.k.a. Ugly Bugs) and in California in a nice park we got infested with tiny ants. They were the worst! We'll never go back to that park.

We just hope we don't get infested with these guys. Wolf Spiders! This guy is staying in his home under the picnic table so far.

Our site at Peter D's. 

We've had some wildlife right here in the park. Here's a mule deer with velvet on his antlers. 

The weather hasn't been all that good. We have not had 2 days in a row without RAIN for the last month! 

We love the downtown in Sheridan. It's still alive with a lot of good shops and a couple of good bars. Our favorite bar is the World Famous "Mint Bar" it was established in 1907. It has a lot of western history in it. 

We met Matt and his dog Chewy in the Mint. Chewy is the local bar dog. He runs up and down the bar top meeting people and might get a treat or two, (mostly from Peggy).

They also have 3 pretty good Breweries in town, Smith Alley Brewery, Black Tooth Brewery and Luminous Brewhouse.

This is Smith Alley Brewery. They opened the main floor and installed the brewery in the basement. You can see the Mint across the street.

We met Paul and Deanie in the park and went to the Luminous to have a Beer. They are full time and are from Sheridan. They winter in Quartzsite, AZ. 

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Flash back to the old snow skiing days. Way back to the old Tioga motor home days.

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Prison

 We stopped in Rawlins, Wyoming. It's a small town, but it has an old prison. So we took the prison tour. It was pretty interesting. I would not want to be there! The park we stayed at was just a big gravel parking lot with power poles. The weather was not too good, it rained almost every day. So the park turned into a mud hole.

The prison was open from 1901 to 1981. It was not a nice place to be in. Over 13,500 inmates were housed here, including 11 women, during the 80 years it was open. More information can be found on their website wyomingfrontierprison.org

This was cell block A. At the time it was open, it had no electricity and inadequate heating.

The tour was an hour long.

One of the cells.

The gas chamber! You could go sit in it. But that was too creepy to me.  

Now we have moved to Sheridan, WY. We're at Peter D's RV park. We stayed here back in 2015. It's a nice grassy park and the owner is on site and checking to make sure we have a good stay.

Our site at Peter D's.

The town has gotten a little bigger. It now has 3 breweries and we've stopped at all 3.

Our bartender, Abby at Luminous Brew House. The tap exploded on her! It's the newest brewery in town. The beer is good. I like the Half Speed Cream Ale they make.

The Menu. It's a dog friendly brewery, like most of them.

Like this bar. This was at the world famous Mint Bar in downtown Sheridan. The Mint first opened in 1907.  It's a nice friendly place.

Katie got to play with a couple of other Bostons in the dog park here.

 

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We have a little wildlife on our site here. A Wolf Spider! Creepy!

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Scary Drives

 We moved to Grand Junction, Co. Stayed at RV Ranch a nice old KOA but the price was not bad. We had a nice pull thru site, The town is very nice. It has a couple of breweries that we had to try. The one we liked the best was a little drive to Palisades, CO. It was across the street from Palisades Weedery. So it was kind of fun watching people going in and out. 

Our site at RV Ranch Park.

We took a drive through Colorado Monument National Park. It was one of the scariest drives we've ever done.   

Peggy wouldn't get out of the car! Monster Canyons right next to the road on Peggy's side.

No way we were going down to the edge and look over the side!

Coming out of this tunnel, on the left was what we thought, was a statue of a Desert Mountain Goat, but it was real!

Doesn't it look fake? But he was standing on the edge of the cliff. You can see the road on the other side of the canyon.

And just to our right up the mountain was all of his buddies! We will never do that drive again!

Big Rock!

Then we left Grand Junction and did another really scary drive on our way to Rawlins, WY. We took CO 139. It was a nice drive for the first 50 miles, then it all went to hell. Up a huge mountain 25 miles per hour for a long way up. We got up to 8300 feet high and on a little road.  

Peggy did all the Photos and Video, I was a little busy driving. After that scary part it was not too bad of a drive.

On the way, there were these tall fences to deter the many deer we saw from going out on the road. But they had these access places for them to get by the fence if they did get on the road.

Rawlins is kind of a small town and it has rained every day so far! My repair job on the small leak has worked great! No Leak so far. The park we're at is a giant parking lot with power poles. It's not bad. We are going to take the Frontier Prison tour before we go, pictures to come.

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Some place having fun!

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